An elegant anthology that tries to encompass India's plurality, from the C6th BC to the C18th, with excerpts of works in Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu. P... read more
A new translation by Matthew Hollis of an Anglo-Saxon poem - ‘The spirit-music of land and wind and sea' - paired with black-and-white photographs by Norman McBeath, who also wrote a short... read more
Memoir and reportage by the outstanding foreign correspondent (who has covered conflict in Ukraine, Mali, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine), and an anthology of poems that spe... read more
An anthology drawn from the immense collection of classical verse assembled as The Greek Anthology. Constantine translates and reworks with a liberating looseness.
A meditation on a woodland garden on the edge of Exmoor, from a tiny imprint that consistently publishes wonders. Dedicated to the late Daphne Astor, founder of Hazel Press, whose remarkable... read more
KJ is the current 'Makar' (National Poet) of Scotland, a terrific writer of verse and prose. This new collection - in which themes of language and history, the migration of birds and people ... read more
The first publication of Tolkien's collected poetry, from all periods of his life as well as his long preoccupation with Middle Earth: in three hardback volumes, with a slipcase.
A generous anthology that ranges from antiquity to the contemporary - edited by the firebrand octogenarian feminist and Shakespeare scholar, whose age has in no way diminished her intelligen... read more
This highly praised posthumous debut concerns the body of a black boy found in the Thames - a fate unnervingly similar to the author's own tragic death last spring.